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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) %u2013 2025/26 Financial Yearcommercial leases concluded for income generation. For residential portfolio, DPWI has 70 lease agreements, and 249 facilities allocated for office accommodation. Furthermore, some residential leases are still awaiting valuation reports, so that market rental can be included in the revised lease agreement for more revenue collection. An amount of R13.821 million, which is 14.9 per cent of the annual target of R92.778 million was collected for revenue generation. The department had made a commendable achievement in the rand value of cost savings that were made, a total of R49.545 million was realised against the annual target of R20 million. This was achieved through the implementation of retention strategies. The Department availed 30 properties to attract investors (domestic and foreign) for long-term development through an open bid process, which is at the bid specification stage. The project is aimed at benefiting mainly black-owned developers. As an implementing agent, the department continued to deliver sustainable infrastructure that meets the service delivery objectives of client departments. To date, 6 new infrastructure projects were completed against the annual target of 14 to improve the quality of services provided and 23 against the annual target of 62 to address maintenance backlogs with the aim of improving the conditional rating of the facilities and to avoid rapid deterioration. For water and energy saving initiatives, the department embarked on a retrofitting project to its facilities and a total of 45 facilities were achieved in the period under review. Productive Assets The productive use and management of state-owned assets (Land and Buildings) to create value for use remains a priority for the department. In this regard, the issuing of the Energy Performance certification (EPC) remains as a challenge due to problems encountered from various municipalities of the incorrect billing. The interventions for the creation of value through productive use and management of state-owed assets progress made to date is as follows: %uf0b7 55 utilisation inspections for office accommodation have been conducted against the target of 75; %uf0b7 198 condition assessments on state-owned buildings were conducted against target of 300; and %uf0b7 100 land surveys were completed against the target of 150. Transformed built environment The Department continued to drive its radical socio-economic transformation agenda and especially in transforming the property and built environment through: %uf0b7 4 long term leases were concluded with Black Developers which translates to 100 per cent against the annual target of 65 per cent; %uf0b7 10 ICDP contractors upgraded in Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) grading against the revised annual target of 10 and to date an Expression of Interest for ICDP database has been issued; %uf0b7 106 contractors were supported with Trainings against the revised annual target of 108; %uf0b7 1 073 APTCoD learners have been trained against the annual target of 1 060; %uf0b7 88 APTCoD learners have passed the trade test against the revised annual target of 88; and %uf0b7 200 NYS Learners have been trained against the annual target of 200. Integrated Planning and Coordination Infrastructure coordination support was provided, and the following achievements were reported: %uf0b7 Support provided to resolve infrastructure delivery challenges identified in the site verification exercise; 293